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MAJOR COUNTRIES OF MIDDLE EAST ARE Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, U.A.E., Jordan etc. Saudi Arabia, officially known as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab world, after Algeria. It is bordered by Jordan, and Iraq on the north and Northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates on the East, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south. The Red Sea lies to its west, and the Persian Gulf lies to the northeast. Saudi Arabia has an area of approximately 2,250,000 Sq.km (870,000 sq mi), and it has an estimated population of 27,000,000, of which 8.8 million are registered foreign expatriates. Saudi nationals comprise an estimated 16 million people. Here is a huge population of expatriate Indians in Saudi Arabia, numbering over 1,500,000 as of the year 2000 and constituting at least 7% of the countrys total population.

The kingdom is sometimes called The Land of the Two Holy Mosques in reference to Al-Masjid Al-Haram (in Mecca), and Al-Masjid Al-Nabawi (in Medina), the two holiest places in Islam. Saudi Arabia has the worlds second largest oil reserves and second largest oil exporter. Oil accounts for more than 90% of exports and nearly 75% of government revenues, facilitating the creation of a welfare state although the share of the non-oil economy is growing recently. It has also the worlds sixth largest natural gas reserves.